Government debt: Enough is enough

The U.S. national debt is more than $15 trillion; unfunded liabilities or the promissory note for future entitlement payments is more than $100 trillion. How much debt is enough?

As a mom, I say enough. Enough of the millions and billions handed out in the form of bailouts for billionaire CEOs; stimulus packages for big-screen TVs; and so-called government "investments" for political payback. Enough of the unchecked and reckless spending by the Washington elite. Enough of the generational theft that will leave our children and grandchildren to labor not for themselves, but for an all-consuming governmental Leviathan to pay for a debt they didn't accrue and a promissory note that can never be satisfied.

As Thomas Jefferson stated, a departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering ... And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.

If you, too, have had enough, I encourage you to join like-minded people for a Tax Day Tea Party Rally from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday on the South Shore of Lake Loveland. Bring your Tax Day-related signs, your patriotic spirit and a nonperishable food donation to benefit the House of Neighborly Service.

Nichole Erickson,

Loveland

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Government debt: Enough is enough

The U.S. national debt is more than $15 trillion; unfunded liabilities or the promissory note for future entitlement payments is more than $100 trillion. How much debt is enough?As a mom, I say